Zoho announced its new version of Zoho Office Suite, which includes four sophisticated, cloud-based productivity software applications namely Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet,Zoho Show, and Zoho Notebook. All four softwares are enhanced with Zia, Zoho's AI-powered assistant.

Zoho Office Suite provides deep contextual collaboration to meet the diverse, end-to-end business needs of users, whether they are part of a small business or enterprise.

"We built Zoho Office Suite to be the most integrated suite of productivity tools of its kind," said  Zoho Corp vice president and general manager Asia Pacific, Gibu Mathew.

Applications in the Zoho Office Suite are not only integrated among themselves, but also with Zoho’s communications tools (Zoho Mail and Cliq, a cross-platform messaging app), Zoho’s collaboration tools (Zoho Projects and Zoho Connect, a private social network for business), as well as Zoho’s several other business applications.

These contextual integrations, for example, enable users to merge data from Zoho CRM into a document and send it for signature through Zoho Sign.

"For decades, Zoho has provided tools for users to collaborate  and work quickly and efficiently. Now, with this new version of Zoho Office Suite—empowered by Zia—Zoho's integrations are tighter than ever before, providing seamless collaboration on documents across departments and teams.

“We've added features and tools that can't be found anywhere else, such as Notebook's smart cards, Sheet's data-cleansing tool, and Show's integration with Apple TV.

“Just like the line between productivity and collaboration applications is fading, we see the line between business, collaboration, productivity, and communication apps fading. It is the combination of these apps, contextually integrated, that makes the modern worker exponentially more productive,” added Mathew.

Zoho Sheet is the first spreadsheet software to offer data-cleaning capabilities to address inconsistencies and eliminate duplications. The data-cleaning tool processes the given information, lists all possible errors—with options to replace them—and rectifies them at the click of a button.

Featuring custom functions powered by Zoho's very own scripting language, Deluge, Zoho Sheet allows users to create their own personalized functions.

For example, users can create a script or deploy a pre-built script to pull data across an accounting app to fill in a Zoho Sheet sales or expense report.

Zoho Show  on the other hand allows users to run presentations on Apple TV-enabled devices as well as Android devices by turning the user's mobile phone into a controller, from which the presenter can beam and control slides on multiple TVs at one time.

Zoho Office Suite is available to single users for free,  RM 12 (US$3) per user, per month for SMEs, and RM 24 (US$6) per user per month for enterprises.

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